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© Copyright 2009
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
Inanis Glass Notes and Errata
The following are a list of tips, tricks, notes and hints about the Inanis
Glass WordPress Theme. More stuff will find it’s way here as relevant.
Credits
Assembled by Inanis <http://www.inanis.net>.
Translation assistance from Zarek Jenkinson <http://zarek.net84.net/>.
German (de_DE) by Zarek Jenkinson <http://zarek.net84.net/>.
Dutch (nl_NL) by Adri Huizing <adri at adrihuizing dot nl>
Polish (pl_PL) by Artur Szulc <szulcu at gmail dot com>
Brazilian Portugese (pt_BR) by Rubem Neco <rubemneco at hotmail dot com>
Turkish (tr_TR) by <winxpfe at hotmail dot com>
Argentinian Spanish (es_AR) by Soctimer < soctimer at gmail dot com>
Korean (ko_KR) by Jong-In Kim <soulofpure at hotmail dot com>
XSS Bug in versions 1.2 and prior found and correction suggested by Soroush Dalili <http://Soroush.SecProject.com>
Changes/Fixes
Version 1.3
# [FIXED] - XSS vulnerability fixed and other security measures taken.
# [FIXED] - Logout button does not work in WordPress 2.7 (now checks for version and gives right logout button)
# [FIXED] - Check IFrame positioning for Firefox2/Win - Seems Okay.
# [FIXED] - Sidebar reported not to work in FF 3.1 - Broken Graphic
# [FIXED] - WP2.7 only - using $MenuOption = 2 doesn’t work correctly on the home page: the taskbar is empty. It does, however, work on archive pages.
# [ADDED] - Make Clock 24hr time compatible via option
# [ADDED] - Lighten up the color of the text on the sidebar - hard to read?
# [ADDED] - Add Parent Name to page/cat-button hovers and show a different popup for those with no children?
# [ADDED] - Check comments features for 2.7 - 2.7 Threaded Comments features in place.
# [FIXED] - page not found code in index.php not working properly - 404.php created to catch this.
# [FIXED] - Pages Widget: if you are on a specific page, the widget shows Inanis Glass Taskbar background under the link.
# [ADDED] - Multiple Language Support
Version 1.2
# [FIXED] - Taskbar and hovers float UNDER Flash on some circumstances.
# [FIXED] - If blog has no Blog Title set in the settings, the banner bubble can have a nasty separation problem.
# [FIXED] - User Info flyout shows dead information if not logged in.
# [FIXED] - Change the way the LI hovers work on the sidebar. (no Graphics?)
# [FIXED] - Fix a bug where an error occurs if the blog has no pages. (Line 216 bug)
# [FIXED] - If you have an item marked “no comments”, then the “leave a comment” screen will still show up.
# [FIXED] - Fix the Categories menu on OM for when there are multiple category children.
# [FIXED] - Categories menu on OM has a width problem, causing it to overrun the containing DIV
# [FIXED] - change vertical bar to bullet on Page template. [Email | Permalink]
# [FIXED] - Changed the way onload event is handled by functions.js
# [ADDED] - Option to show QuickLaunch buttons
# [ADDED] - Option to turn off the child page popups.
# [ADDED] - Option to show Categories instead of Pages at bottom
# [ADDED] - Allow setting of default theme in an easier manner.
# [ADDED] - Have the Theme Menu show which theme is this blogs default.
# [ADDED] - Option to Show “roll off” pages with a button at the right of the taskbar: blogs with LOTS of pages can still have all pages listed.
# [ADDED] - Option to show/not show disclaimer and change disclaimer text.
# [ADDED] - Scroll feature on post content window in case it’s too wide for the frame.
# [DONE] - Optimize “offscreen” placement of pagelink hovers.
# [DONE] - Re-Optimize graphics, CSS and HTML for size (shaved about 50k using PNGMonster)
Version 1.1.01
# [FIXED] - Use of self-referenced arrays causes issues on hosts using PHP4 or earlier.
# [ADDED] - Optimized Javascript code a little.
Version 1.1
# [ADDED] - Better IE6 support.
# [ADDED] - Style text elements (blockquote, pre, code, etc.)
# [ADDED] - make page children pop above taskbar buttons (think “Taskbar Preview”)
# [ADDED] - Better description of theme/features for next WordPress Extend posting.
# [ADDED] - Add a Readme File to the theme, and urge people to read it first.
# [ADDED] - ability to click on post title and go to full post
# [ADDED] - Add “last edited date” on post footer
# [ADDED] - make the “Change Theme” options more apparent/obvious
# [ADDED] - Support for the “wrapper” element id.
# [FIXED] - Sidebar glitch with UL in Lightweight theme.
# [FIXED] - “About This Post” links don’t all work.
# [FIXED] - Proper, complete and final fix for the “clear:both” bug.
Version 1.0.01
# Initial Release
Notes
1. Theme is Bandwidth Heavy
I know. It’s emulating a well known GUI from a neat looking operating
system, also known for it’s heaviness. What did you expect? 
If this is
really a problem for you, either don’t use the theme or take a look below
at “Tips and Tricks” to find out how to force the default sub-theme to
be the “Lightweight” theme.
2. Some things aren’t in the right place
I know, I may have bucked WordPress theme tradition and placed things in
weird places, or changed the way some “holy” things display information,
but I disagreed with the way they were doing things, and I’m not one to
follow the rules if the rules are stupid. If you disagree, feel free to
modify the theme to your liking.
Tips and Tricks
1. User Changed Sub-Themes
Don’t forget, there are multiple Sub-Themes, not just the default black/blue
“Void” theme. If your viewers change this theme, that change only appears
for them, and reappears each time they visit, that is if they allow cookies.
2. User Options
By editing useroptions.php using the Theme Editor, you can make some really cool
modifications to the theme. Here’s the rundown:
# Option to Display Pages or Categories along TaskBar
# Option to show/not show Child Page/Category Popups
# Option to set the default sub-theme.
# Option to give visitors a random theme on first visit
# Option to show QuickLaunch area. See useroptions.php for more info.
# Option to “Roll Off” the Task Bar buttons if you have too many pages to fit.
# Option to change clock to 24 hour (military) format
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and how is it posibel to disable child function? because everywhere it says only ‘no child paged…’
Good question. There is no setting anywhere you can set to turn off the child page popups. I will consider adding this as an option in the next version.
Cool, I really like this theme, nice work!
Is it possible to add my own HTML code in sidebar ?
I keep getting this when attempting to install and then after installation as well.
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /home/content/s/i/m/simmonsmj/html/eyenstein.net/wordpress/wp-content/themes/inanis-glass/functions.php on line 117
Thanks Dave!
Eric, yes, you can. You can either:
1) Edit sidebar.php manually and do whatever you want, I don’t care.
- or -
2) Go into the admin of your blog, go to “design”, then “widgets” and add a Text/HTML widget. You can put whatever you want to inside one of those.
Marc, I am aware of this. I fixed this as soon as I found out about it and re-uploaded a new revision to WordPress Extend. This is the PHP4 bug I noted on my theme’s page. Once the WordPress people approve the updated version, you can grab a copy of that and that will fix the problem.
I get the same error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /home/content/s/i/m/simmonsmj/html/eyenstein.net/wordpress/wp-content/themes/inanis-glass/functions.php on line 117″
is there a fix acvaiable yet for this?
Robert,
The fix is sitting on WordPress’ server waiting for their approval. I don’t know what is taking so long for them to approve it.
If you need it faster, shoot over to my Contact Me page and send me an email. I can send it to you.
Do not seem find useroptions.php “By editing useroptions.php using the Theme Editor, you can make some really cool modifications to the theme.”
Wanted to change the default subtheme.
This is an very nice them and its like a lot of hard work went into it.
I am getting an error when I published the theme that I was trying to find the fix for.
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/s/y/s/syscntrl/html/wp-content/themes/inanis-glass/footer.php on line 216
Any ideas on what is wrong in that string that i can update?
<div onmouseover=”hovmhov();” onmouseout=”unhovmhov();” class=”mhov” id=”hov” style=”position:absolute;bottom:0;left:px;”>
<?php
if ($value){echo $value;}
else {echo (”No Child Pages…”);}
$count = $count +1;
?>
@Alonzo: The readme is 1 version ahead. The useroptions.php will be available in 1.2
@Eric D: I emailed you a fix.
Hey Inanis,
congratulations on making it to the WP index! This theme is amazing and I have downloaded it for a couple of blogs. Are you planning on releasing a premium version? If so, let me know and I will feature it in the site.
Thanks,
Dan
Hey inanis,
Thanks for the info on setting the default subtheme in my version 1.0.01.
The theme is super. You did a real fine job.
Salutations!
As for a premium version, this is as premium as it gets. I do this for fun, not money, fame, glory or anything else. Thanks for asking, though.
Does this theme work in Wordpress 2.6.2 ?
It should work in 2.6.2 just fine. As a matter of fact, it just might work in 2.5, although I wouldn’t recommend it.
You’ve done a really beautiful job designing this. I’ve designed a few themes myself so I know how much work has gone into this one.
The amount of images you use is mind boggling, but its still a small file size. I’ve not worked much with graphics on this scale - and think that the transparency you’ve used and the way it all fits together is really spot on.
I’ve been looking for a style suitable for a memorial website - nothing commercial just a labour of love as it were. If I don’t actually use this theme - I’d certainly look at creating transparency in the graphics instead of using plain images.
This design gives me a lot to think about.
In my opinion, this theme blows away thousands of themes that are being offered for sale.
Once again, thanks for releasing it - I’m sure you’ll see plenty of people using it - not least because it looks so different yet is still your basic easy to navigate WordPress body underneath the engine.
I take it you used Photoshop to create the images. I’ve not quite ‘got’ the way that websites are designed in psd - I generally code the xhtml and css first and make them accommodate the images.
Good luck.